{"id":4646,"date":"2014-05-22T17:40:57","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T23:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/?p=4646"},"modified":"2014-05-22T17:48:46","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T23:48:46","slug":"the-firing-of-the-new-york-times-jill-abramson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/?p=4646","title":{"rendered":"The firing of the New York Times\u2019 Jill Abramson – too little salary, too feminin, too liberal for the Propaganda paper it became?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The firing of Jill Abramson as executive editor of the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0May 14 lifted the lid on the US media establishment. Displayed for all to see was the money-grubbing, careerism and egotism that dominates this filthy little world.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0is a principal mouthpiece of the American corporate elite. It has become one of the most dishonest publications on earth, since its editors and reporters are assigned an impossible task: framing the interests of a predatory, crisis-ridden elite in the vestiges of traditional liberal terminology.<\/p>\n

What was the record of the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0during her two years and eight months as executive editor? A brief recapitulation would have to include the newspaper\u2019s vociferous backing for economic and military aggression against Iran, Syria and China; its defense of drone murder and the military lockdown of Boston; its contributions to the smear campaigns against Bradley (Chelsea) Manning, Julian Assange and Edward Snowden; its support for the privatization of Medicare, defense of Obamacare and continued campaign against \u201covertesting\u201d (i.e., its indefatigable support for reducing health care costs at the expense of the working class population); and, most recently, the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0\u2019 especially vile cover-up of the fascist-led coup in Ukraine, its publication of fake photos supposedly claiming to prove Russian intervention in the eastern part of the country and its suppression of ultra-right atrocities in Odessa and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

A record to be proud of \u2026 ! Of course Abramson wasn\u2019t fired for any of this, no portion of which will hinder her from finding a new lucrative source of income.<\/p>\n

She belongs to the wealthy, anti-democratic media and political establishment in the US, which has swung dramatically to the right in recent decades. The distasteful and unseemly squabble between Abramson, Baquet, Sulzberger and the rest will serve a useful purpose to the extent that it further discredits the state-run propaganda organ that the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0has become.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The firing of Jill Abramson as executive editor of the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0May 14 lifted the lid on the US media establishment. Displayed for all to see was the money-grubbing, careerism and egotism that dominates this filthy little world. Read more The\u00a0New York Times\u00a0is a principal mouthpiece of the American corporate elite. It has become one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[102],"tags":[884,616,789],"class_list":["post-4646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa","tag-jill-abramson","tag-ny-times","tag-propaganda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ggeb426.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2SfUR-1cW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4646"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4653,"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646\/revisions\/4653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}